The Relationship between Husbands’ Level Of Neuroticism And Wives’ Level Of Self-Esteem, Marital Satisfaction And Sexual Desire
Journal Title: INDIAN JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 4
Abstract
Introduction: Marriage is the most important event of every individual’s life; it not only includes two people but also two different individuals’ families as well as their social lives. Many times, their personalities may affect each other’s life and physical as well as psychological health. This research focused on, the relationship between husband’s level of Neuroticism and wives level of Self Esteem, Sexual Desire and Marital Satisfaction. Methodology: The research is conducted on Indian copulas with married life of 10 to 20 years. A Purposive Sample is one that is selected based on the knowledge of the population and the purpose of the study. It is where the subjects are selected because of some characteristic which they possess. In this study, the sample selection was done depending upon the level of Neuroticism in husbands. The study is quantitative in nature. Standardized tests are used namely Eysenk’s personality questionnaire, The Rosenberg Self Esteem scale which is developed by sociologist Dr. Morris Rosenberg as well as Index of Marital satisfaction was developed by Hudson and The Sexual Desire Inventory-Female (SIDI-F). Results: The research was conducted on 100 married couple with husband’s who scored high in Neuroticism. The mean obtained for Neuroticism was 20.34 whereas the mean obtained for self esteem was 18.19. For marital satisfaction the mean score was 68.18 and for sexual desire was 27.06. The standard deviation found to be 1.87 for husbands’ level of Neuroticism. The standard deviation found to be 5.56 for wife’s Self esteem, the SD of Marital satisfaction was 13.77 and for Sexual desire it was 8.59. Conclusion: The obtained data shows no significant difference between the husbands’ level of Neuroticism and wife’s level of Self esteem. There was a positive correlation between the satisfaction. It found that there is low negative correlation between the husband’s level of Neuroticism and wife’s level of Marital Satisfaction and Sexual Desire. Statistical Analysis revealed that there could be positive or negative correlation between the husbands’ level of neuroticism and their wives’ Marital Satisfaction and Sexual Desire.
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Sailee M. Padhye, Jennifer Chandani, Archana Patki
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